Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar Quotes
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In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!
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Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.
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I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
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Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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We must create a marriage between the awareness of the body and that of the mind. When two parties do not cooperate, there is unhappiness on both sides.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
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Nothing is achieved by a mind that doubts
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head
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The needs of the body are the needs of the divine self, which lives through the body.
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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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During inhalation, the breath should move exactly like clouds spreading in the sky.
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There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.
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Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.
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We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.